Beta versioning system

[abhishek rane]

On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 7:53 PM, Mark Kretschmann <kretschmann at kde.org>wrote:

> Heya,
>
> as I've already stated numerous times on IRC, I'm really unhappy with
> the new versioning system that we've started to deploy in Amarok 2,
> e.g.
>
> beta1 = 1.90
>
> I've just talked to another user who got confused by this, and this
> was probably the 10th time already that this happened. The old system,
> which we have been using very successfully for about 4 years, was
> simply
>
> beta1 = beta1
>
> All was fine with that system. So, if there is no compelling reason
> against it, I would like to switch back to the old system ASAP.
>
>
> Thoughts?
>
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> Mark Kretschmann
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To be frank even I was myself confused with this naming system,I installed
aplha2 and i was left wondering that I had installed the wrong version.Beta1
should be Beta 1 and so on IMHO because a new users might find it confusing
when they download say beta 2 and after that it shows 1.9x something.
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